Reversible writing pad



Dago i l J. A. H. BARKEIJ REVERSIBLE wR'TING PAD 'Filed August 1:, 1924f2 fj 12 17 f1 11 I j? Y u ff?? u i /19 /1 rammed Dee. 2e, 1925.

UNITED STATES 'PATENT gcarries.

REVERSIBLE WRITING PAD.

Appunti@ mea August 13, um. serai 1:0. 731,693.

To aZZ fwwm, t may concern.'

Bc it known that I, .lum A. H. BARKEIJ, a citizen of Holland, residingat Hollywood, in the' county of Los Angeles and State of California,have invented new and useful ln'xprovenibnts in Reversible W ritingPads, of which the following 1s a specification.

My invention relates lo improvements in i0 writing pads and penciltablets generally used by students, stenographers, etc.

The writing pads and pencil tablets in general use have a back-boardpermanently attached tofonc side of the pad or tablet,

so that is is convenient to write on only one side of the sheetsrthereof, and the other side is leftvblanlr ory only partially used, thusinvolving unnecessary Waste.

The main object of my invention is to 2@ provide a pad of the kinddescribed with a removable back-board, which may be detached from thepad When one side of the sheets have been written on and may be reattached thereto in such a position that the other side of the sheetsmay he as conveniently used as the first side, 4thus not only savingpaper but also saving space, in case Fig. 1 is va view of thefront "sideofI the pad. A

Fig. 2 is an edge View of the pad shown in Fig. 1.

.4.5 A Fig. 3 is a back View of thepad Fig. 4 is'an enlarged sectionalview of' the pad taken on line 4 4 of F ig. 1. v

The manner of binding the sheets, in forming the pad, is a part ofpmyinvention. its shown in Fig. 2 the sheets 10 which form the pad arebound at one end by binding strips 11 of equal Width and thickness onboth sides of the ad. The sheets may be clamped between t ese strips bysewing through them, but are Apreferably held to- M gether by clampingstaples 12 extending through the pad and binding strips and having theirsides 13 bent down in the usual way. Holes 14- are made through thebinding strips and pad.

A back-board 15 having holes 16 in one end, so spaced as to coincideWith holes 11i in the pad, is provided and is attached to the pad bymeans of metal clips 17 having split Shanks 18, which extend throughholes 14s and 16 and the ends of which are bent outward as at V19 toform a detachable fastener. Clips 17 are made of sufficiently thin andflexible metal so thaiJ ends 19 may be straightened out, when the pad is.to be reversed, the back-board may be detached from the original sideof the pady and reattached to the other side thereof in the same Way.Vifith the pad thus reversed the second side of itssheets may be used asreadily as the first side.

Having thus illustrated and deseribed my invention, claim:

1. A reversible Writing pad, com rising a permanent assemblage of sheetso' mate- W rial adapted for Writing thereon to form a pad, permanentbinding strips on both sides of said pad, clamping one end thereof, anda back-'board having one of its ends detachably fixed to said bindingstrips and if@ pad, so that said haelt-board may be removed from eitherside of said pad and may be reettached to the other side thereof.

2. A, reversible Writing pad, comprisingA a plurality of sheetsassembled toA form a im pad, binding stripsv fixed to one end of saidpad on both sides thereof, .permanent clamping staples extending throughsaid pad and binding strips, a hack-board having 'one end detachablyfixed to said pad im and detachable means for xing said back vboard tosaid pad, so that said back-board may be removed from one side and fixedto the other side of vsaid pad.

3. A reversible Writing pad comprising if*

